Robert MacNeil

Biography

Robert Breckenridge Ware MacNeil OC (1931-2024), often known as Robin MacNeil, was a Canadian-American journalist, writer, and television news anchor. He partnered with Jim Lehrer to create the landmark public television news program The Robert MacNeil Report in 1975. MacNeil co-anchored the program until 1995.

Known For

PBS News Hour

Washington Week with The Atlantic

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

The American President

Hamlet

Commitment to Life

Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy

Sesame Street: Put Down the Duckie

All Movies (11)

• Commitment to Life2023 · as Self (archive)
• Mr. Conservative: Goldwater on Goldwater2007 · as Self
• JFK: Breaking the News2003 · as Self (archive footage)
• Hamlet2000 · as Player King
• Into the Future: On the Preservation of Knowledge in the Electronic Age1997 · as Narrator
• Bah, Humbug!: The Story of Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol'1994 · as Host
• Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy1993 · as Self - MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour, PBS
• Sesame Street: Put Down the Duckie1988 · as Self
• An Empire of Reason1988 · as Self
• The Lions of Capitalism: Some Call It Greed1977 · as Narrator
• The Violent Universe1969 · as Host

All TV Shows (6)

• America at a Crossroads2007
• Do You Speak American?2005 · as Robert MacNeil
• The American President2000 · as James Monroe
• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy1979 · as Self – Host (uncredited)
• PBS News Hour1975 · as Self - Anchor
• Washington Week with The Atlantic1967 · as Self - Moderator